Colson Whitehead
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| Colson Whitehead | |
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 Colson Whitehead at the 2009 Texas Book Festival. |
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| Born | 1969 |
| Occupation | Author |
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Colson Whitehead is a New York-based novelist. He is best-known as the author of the 2001 novel John Henry Days. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
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[edit] Background and education
Whitehead was born in New York City in 1969, and grew up in Manhattan. He attended the prestigious preparatory school Trinity in Manhattan. Whitehead graduated from Harvard College in 1991.
[edit] Career
[edit] Early Years
For two years after leaving college, Whitehead wrote for the The Village Voice.[1] While working at the Voice, he began drafting his first novels.
[edit] Novels
Whitehead has since produced five widely acclaimed book-length works—four novels and a meditation on life in Manhattan in the style of E.B. White's famous essay Here Is New York. The books are 1999's The Intuitionist, 2001's John Henry Days, 2003's The Colossus of New York, 2006's Apex Hides the Hurt, and 2009's Sag Harbor.[2] Esquire Magazine named The Intuitionist the best first novel of the year, and GQ called it one of the "novels of the millennium."[3] Novelist John Updike, reviewing The Intuitionist in The New Yorker, called Whitehead "ambitious," "scintillating," and "strikingly original," adding, "The young African-American writer to watch may well be a thirty-one-year-old Harvard graduate with the vivid name of Colson Whitehead."[4]
[edit] Journalism
Whitehead's non-fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Salon and The Village Voice.
[edit] Honors
Whitehead is a 2002 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Intuitionist (1999)
- John Henry Days (2001)
- The Colossus of New York (2003)
- Apex Hides the Hurt (2006)
- Sag Harbor (2009)
[edit] References
- ^ "Colson Whitehead". Colsonwhitehead.com. http://www.colsonwhitehead.com/biography.shtml. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ "Colson Whitehead". Pen.org. http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1033. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ John Updike, "Tote That Ephemera," The New Yorker, May 7, 2001.
- ^ John Updike, "Tote That Ephemera," The New Yorker, May 7, 2001.
[edit] External links
- Personal site
- On Point - What's in a Name? (interview, 2006-09-04)
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